rt, his well-being, his getting on in the world.

The very suggestion of woman's inferiority, that she must stand in the
man's shadow and not get ahead of him, that she does not have quite the
same rights in anything that he has, the same property rights, the same
suffrage rights; in other words, the whole suggestion of woman's
inferiority, has been a criminal wrong to her. Many women who are
advocating woman's suffrage perhaps would not use the ballot if they had
it. Their fight is one for freedom to do as they please, to live their
own lives in their own way. The greatest argument in the woman's
suffrage movement is woman's protest against unfair, unjust treatment by
men. Man's opposition to woman suffrage is merely a relic of the
old-time domestic barbarism. It is but another expression of his
determination to "boss" everybody and everything about him.

The time will come when men will be ashamed that they ever opposed
woman's suffrage. Think of a man considering it right and just for his
most ignorant workman to have an equal vote with himself on public
matters and yet denying the right to his educated wife and daughters!

CHAPTER LXI

THRIFT

"Mony a mickle makes a muckle."--SCOTCH PROVERB.

"A penny saved is a penny earned."--ENGLISH SAYING.

"Beware of little extravagances; a small leak will sink a big
ship."--FRANKLIN.

"No gain is more certain than that which proceeds from the economical use
of what we have."--LATIN PROVERB.

"Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can."--JOHN WESLEY.

"All fortunes have their foundation laid in economy."--J. G. HOLLAND.

In the philosophy of thrift, the unit measure of prosperity is always the
smallest of coins current. Thrift is measured not by the pound but by
the penny, not by the dollar but by the cent. Thus any person in receipt
of an income or salary however small finds it in his power to practise
thrift and to lay the foundation of prosperity.

The word thrift in its origin means the grasping or holding fast the
things that we have. It implies economy, carefulness, as opposed to
waste and extravagance. It involves self-denial and frugal living for
the time being, until the prosperity which grows out of thrift permits
the more liberal indulgence of natural desires.

One of the primary elements of thrift is to spend less than you earn, to
save something however small from the salary received, to lay aside at
regular intervals whe